Careers in Government

JUNE 12, 2023

The post A Comprehensive Guide to Planning a Sabbatical for Government Employees appeared first on Careers in Government. Time away from the daily grind allows for much-needed rest, relaxation, and rejuvenation, leading to reduced stress levels and increased mental clarity.

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State Tech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Cisco’s unified communications platform has been key to keeping employees productive and engaged. “It In Jefferson County, N.Y., It helps tremendously with the ability to work remotely,” says IT Director Sean Vincent. You can sit at a home office and see who’s available, just like you’re in the office.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

OCTOBER 16, 2024

At the federal, state and local level, there are varying laws that require both government and non-government employees to receive a combination of paid and unpaid leave. Paid leave can take many forms, including paid family and medical leave, paid sick time, paid time off and bereavement leave.

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State Tech Magazine

APRIL 25, 2023

With laptops then easy to obtain for state government employees, many looked at telework through the lenses of work-life balance and decreasing traffic on local roads.

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State Tech Magazine

APRIL 6, 2023

These “towers” have traditionally been the only locations capable of providing the processing power needed to generate actionable intelligence serving the employees and citizens in satellite offices, or the “trenches.”

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State Tech Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

Government employees spend a lot of time writing resolutions and other regulatory documents, but AI could speed up such work for them. “… Speaking Thursday at the Public Technology Institute’s 2024 AI and Cyber Summit in Washington, D.C., Scott Varner, director of IT and management information systems for Frederick County, Va.,

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State Tech Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2022

Waves of Americans began leaving their jobs last year in the midst of the “Great Resignation,” and local government workers were among those who left or considered leaving. Many local government employees were fatigued by the pandemic and sought better pay and benefits.

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GCN

APRIL 14, 2023

Everything from pandemic policies to security concerns is causing agencies to reduce in-person services, including licenses and permits.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

OCTOBER 21, 2024

” That is how one local government HR leader described the challenge of attracting and retaining talent in today’s intensely competitive labor market. City government employees today have different expectations about where, how, and why they want to work. They […] Source

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NLC (National League of Cities)

MAY 7, 2024

Department of Labor released its final rule on overtime protections that increases the salary thresholds required to exempt a salaried bona fide executive, administrative, or professional employee from federal overtime pay requirements. This […] Source

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GCN

MARCH 14, 2023

While many government employees reuse credentials that have been compromised and put online, one expert warned MFA is not the “silver bullet” solution.

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GCN

AUGUST 15, 2022

The survey also revealed managers seem to trust employees to perform more in virtual environments.

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FedTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The American Federation of Government Employees and the National Science Foundation (NSF) recently signed a new collective bargaining agreement that will expand telework and remote work options in an effort to find new ways to achieve efficiency and work-life balance.

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State Tech Magazine

DECEMBER 28, 2022

When the pandemic shut down many government offices in March 2020, residents could no longer physically interact with government employees in many cities, including Santa Monica, Calif. The Santa Monica city manager turned to the municipality’s CIO for a solution to boost citizen services online.

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FedTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In current dollars, he’d be The Forty Million Dollar Man — a solid chunk of the $65 billion requested for civilian IT spending in President Joe Biden’s fiscal 2023 budget — but he’d still be a federal employee who was able to do his job better and faster with the help of modern technology.

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State Tech Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Elevating the citizen experience is a key goal for state and local agencies as they face pressure to modernize digital services for constituents and improve working conditions for employees. Often, the contact center acts as the front line, where citizens and government employees interact directly.

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GCN

MARCH 13, 2023

Roughly one-third of government employees believe “their actions don’t matter when it comes to security,” according to a new survey.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 9, 2024

Is it just the government employee, or is it also the local constituent? When developing new applications, you want to include the end user in the process. But when it comes to using open data to tackle local problems, who counts as the end user?

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Improving the Employee Experience: GenAI can make government employees more efficient and productive. Employees themselves can get faster, more comprehensive answers to day-to-day questions as they use GenAI to query agency data.

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Microsoft Public Sector

MAY 8, 2023

During the first full week of May each year since 1985 in the United States, we honor the people who serve our nation as federal, state, county, local and tribal government employees as a part of Public Service Recognition Week (PSRW). We thank each of you in public service and recognize your contributions!

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GovLoop

JANUARY 17, 2024

This adaptation is crucial as government employees transition back to office work, ensuring the continuity of zero-trust principles. 3 Ways to Leverage Zero Trust Evolve Hybrid Cloud Strategy : Update strategies for delivering services via both cloud and on-premises technologies.

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GCN

MAY 18, 2023

The survey suggests more than half of government employees prefer to work for an agency that offers hybrid and remote flexibility.

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State Tech Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Notebooks are the centerpiece of many state and local government employees’ worlds, especially in the era of digital work, and this key piece of gear must be lightweight and fast. The new ASUS Zenbook Pro 14 is a sleek system that includes a powerful processor and features that surpass those of many desktop computers.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Nevertheless, agencies are under more pressure to digitize citizen services and improve government efficiency. The core challenge at the state and local level is to optimize the digital experience for citizens and government employees while ultimately improving security.

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GCN

DECEMBER 12, 2022

State and local government employees say that they expect fraud to increase, and they would like to spend more time preventing than investigating it, a new survey found.

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State Tech Magazine

JULY 1, 2024

Cisco recently published the results of a hybrid work survey that found 88 percent of federal, state and local government employees are very or somewhat satisfied with hybrid work arrangements. In the survey, 86 percent of respondents said being able to work remotely was important to them in future roles.

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State Tech Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

With this rollout, Microsoft becomes an even bigger player in the field of emerging AI tools, and likely the single largest one for many state and local government employees. With Microsoft’s Copilot, many government workers will use approved AI tools overtly in their jobs for the first time.

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Government Technology Insider

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Government Technology Insider sat down with Tom Wiri, Senior Account Executive and Blake Yanick, Regional Account Director at Tricentis, to discuss how state CIOs can leverage automation to overcome challenges and drive legacy modernization.

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ASPA National Weblog

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

If you are a federal employee, be prepared to say goodbye to presidential appointees and to have new leaders. Many state and local government employees will experience these federal changes too. Thank goodness law and policy guides our institutional tradition in transitioning leadership.

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Google Public Sector

APRIL 7, 2023

In addition, Apigee allows developers to create modern web and mobile experiences that citizens and government employees can utilize. Using APIs to securely connect government systems It’s no accident that data in governmental systems is protected by a plethora of security measures such as firewall rules and authentication protocols.

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GovLoop

MARCH 27, 2024

We’ve curated a jam-packed agenda around the topics that matter most to government employees like you. Our NextGen Gov Virtual Training Summit line-up has keynote topics that are perfect for anyone who wants to move their career forward. Now the difficult part: which sessions will you join on May 15?

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Google Public Sector

OCTOBER 1, 2024

At Gemini at Work, Google Cloud announced that the Gemini app will now be built directly into Workspace, giving thousands of government employees access to their own virtual assistant, while ensuring that the agency’s security and compliance policies are upheld.

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Public Sector Government Employee Security Engagement 82

NLC (National League of Cities)

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

MissionSquare Research Institute started surveying state and local government employees in May 2020 about the job, financial, and personal […] Source. While that anxiety began as an outgrowth of the pandemic and then the Great Resignation, it has persisted and continues to evolve.

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State Tech Magazine

MARCH 2, 2023

Explore strategies that help government employees to work anywhere from any device here. A critical piece is application management: making sure that everyone has the right apps to do their jobs, updated to the correct version, with all the supporting tools.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JULY 14, 2023

That means external, organised crime gangs are the biggest threat to government security. However, internal actors account for nearly a third (30%) of breaches, and collaboration between external parties and government employees or partners accounts for 16% of data breaches.

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The CIO Council

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The FMG seeks public comment on the new FMG International Travel Guidance for Government-Furnished Mobile Devices report , which outlines the elevated risks tied to the use of GFE mobile devices by government employees during overseas travel and shares best practice mitigations and lessons-learned from several federal departments and agencies.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Government employees don’t operate in a vacuum. It takes teamwork — and a lot of it — to keep agencies operating, meeting missions and providing for constituents.

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